[SIGCIS-Members] CfP: „Flexibility“ and „Agility“ Strategies, Practices, and Ambivalences of a Key Concept since the 1980s

[Luke Fernandez]

What an interesting conference. And what interesting questions it poses!
For example, this one on page 5 of the CFP:

"How did agile software development shape the concepts of work and
employment?"

If anyone from this listserv has some cites that speak to this question I'd
be psyched if you shared a few.

I make no claims to know anything about this subject apart from recently
finishing Cal Newport's *A World Without Email *where he touches on these
concerns.  Among other things, Newport wishes for a productivity revolution
in knowledge work.  And he thinks that it might happen if we replace email
with some of the productivity tools and techniques that are used in
software development like kanban boards and scrum and agile work
processes.  He insists that this can happen without knowledge work
suffering the same forms of
regimentation/acceleration/dehumanization/surveillance that happened to
many forms of manual labor with the implementation of Taylorism and Fordism
(cf. page 119).  But how plausible are Newport's claims?  Are scrum and
agile new forms of Taylorism?  Or are they something altogether different?
Is it even helpful to view these techniques through the lens of Taylorism?

Best,

Luke Fernandez
Weber State University

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 8:23 AM Schmitt, Martin <
martin.schmitt at tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

> Dear SIGCIS,
>
> We will host a conference on „Flexibility“ and „Agility“: Strategies,
> Practices, and Ambivalences of a Key Concept since the 1980s (together with
> Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF),
> Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
> (HSU), SPP 2267 “The Digitalization of Working Worlds. Conceptualising and
> Capturing a Systemic Transformation.“). Keynote speaker is Richard Sennett.
> Date: 17/18 November 2022
> Location: Darmstadt
> You will find the call for paper here(
> https://www.geschichte.tu-darmstadt.de/flexibility). Please submit your
> proposed papers by 30 May 2022.
>
>
> For the SIGCIS community, especially the parts on agility/software
> programing and digital automation are the most interesting one.
>
> Best
> Martin
>
> Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Post-Doc | digital enthusiast
>
> Technische Universität Darmstadt
> Institut für Geschichte
> Fachgebiet Technikgeschichte
>
> Mail: martin.schmitt at tu-darmstadt.de
> Tel: +49  6151-16-57327
> http://www.computerisierung.com
>
> &
>
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>
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>
> Zuletzt erschienen: *Die Digitalisierung der Kreditwirtschaft*. Computereinsatz
> in den Sparkassen der Bundesrepublik und der DDR 1957-1991, Göttingen:
> Wallstein-Verlag 2021,
> https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835333710-die-digitalisierung-der-kreditwirtschaft.html
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